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An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
Marvin Minsky
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Marvin Minsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1927
Born: August 9
Died: 2016
Died: January 24
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Scientist
University Teacher
New York City
New York
Marvin Lee Minsky
Marvin L. Minsky
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Something
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Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.
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If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
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By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.
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Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.
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Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.
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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
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One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
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Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the real meaning of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.
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I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
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Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
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But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.
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The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
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General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
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It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.
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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
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Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
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Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.
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